Ashton Whitty and Asia Argento
Ashton Blaise Whitty born October 1st, 1995, in Berkeley California USA. She's an actress well-known for her roles in Choices (2010, The Heart and Other Small Shapes, 2006) as well as Chrissie Mair's Content House 2022.
Asia Argento began her career as an actress in Rome. The family she is from also includes a number of film makers. She made her debut when she was just nine years old aged in Sergio Citti's film Sogni e Bisogni in 1988. she had the leading role in the debut film of Cristina Comencini, Zoo, and was part of the cast of The Church directed by Michele Soavi. Red Wood Pigeon was the following year and Asia was Nanni's daughters. Close Friends was written by Michele Placido and was directed by her. This was when Asia's career began to take off as she transitioned from young girl roles to mature and complex ones. The movie was well-received at the Cannes International Film Festival. In Trauma she worked in her first film with her father, the renowned Italian horror director Dario Argento his mother, one of the most beloved actresses by Argento, Daria Nicolodi, playing an anorexic girl in search for her parents' killer. Dario Argento's the Phantom of the Opera is the third film she's produced with her father, other films being Trauma as well as The Stendhal Syndrome Asia's absorbed, intense style of acting is well utilized in Giuseppe Picioni's Condannato a Nozze . Co-starring with Carlo Verdone in Perdiamoci di perspective as Arianna, a girl with physical handicap. The intricate and challenging part earned her a David di Donatello award for the Best actress. In 1995 she worked alongside Michel Piccoli on Peter Del Monte's Compagna di viaggio. This collaboration was rewarded with the David di Donatello prize and an award called a Grolla of Oro. Asia started directing in the year 1994, releasing two shorts as well as an episode of the film De Generazione. In 1996, she produced a documentary about her father, and AbelAsia which was a documentary about the legendary filmmaker Abel Ferrara. In 1998, Asia directed AbelAsia, which won awards by the Rome Film Festival. The year 1999 was the year Asia made her feature-directing debut with Scarlet Diva where she was the leading actor and wrote the screenplay. The film released on May 1, 2000 in Italy in addition to the rest of world. The film was awarded an prize in Brooklyn at the Williamsburg International Film Festival.
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